Another business type is a storefront

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Area Business (SAB), where you go out to meet your customers at their location or another location, like a coffee shop (for instance). Service Area Businesses cannot show their physical address in their Google Business Profile.  where customers come to your location to either shop or meet with you. The third business type is a hybrid business, where you have a storefront with permanent signage, have employees staffed there during business hours, and go out to customers to service them at their location. A good example of a hybrid location is an appliance store that has a storefront that sells appliances and has a team of employees that goes out to deliver and repair appliances at customers’ homes.

Another example would be an insurance agent DB to Data has an office location that clients come to, but the insurance agent also goes out to clients’ homes to meet with them as well. Ideally, each business should only have one Google Business Profile. Google discourages home-based businesses from having more than one business from the same residential address. (If more than one Business Profile is set up at the same residential address, it is likely that one or both Business Profiles will get suspended. This is to prevent abuse and spam.)



If you are a Service Area Business, you can have one location per metropolitan area within a two-hour driving radius. Franchises and other storefront locations, like McDonald’s or Lowe’s (for example), can have multiple locations in cities, which is fine per Google’s guidelines. Each of the different types of business locations has its own specific guidelines you must follow. Be sure to read up on the guidelines if you have a Service Area Business, a storefront location or a hybrid business, and adhere to the precise rules you must comply with.